Robert Powell’s controversial 1960 proto-slasher Peeping Tom is getting a 4K UHD physical release from Studiocanal.
When Is the Peeping Tom 4K UHD Release?
The Peeping Tom 4K UHD release is set to arrive on January 29, 2024, on Studicanal’s Vintage Classics label.
The movie, released just before Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, was a controversial subject thanks partly to its depiction of the sex work industry and the fact it focused on a serial killer, something unprecedented at the time. Critics were revolted by it, and director Michael Powell (who was most famous for A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus, and The Red Shoes) never made a film in the UK again.
The product description for the 4K release is as follows.
”A piercing new 4K restoration of Michael Powell’s iconic serial killer classic PEEPING TOM, restored by The Film Foundation and BFI National Archive. An influential cinematic masterpiece written by Leo Marks (Twisted Nerve) and starring Carl Boehm (Sissi), Anna Massey (Frenzy), Moira Shearer (The Red Shoes), and Maxine Audley (A King in New York). Now regarded as a ground-breaking masterpiece of the British horror movement, on its initial release in 1960, PEEPING TOM received a savage reception from critics who were dismayed by its controversial subject matter and the sympathy it seems to engender for its murderous protagonist.”
Loner Mark Lewis (Böehm) works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also, he’s making a documentary on fear, which involves recording victims’ reactions as he murders them. He befriends Helen (Massey), the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making. This subterfuge can only last so long, however.
